lol, no. This type of cursed pizza could easily be in Brazil. No country's food is safe here. Not that it's normal here, but I've seen plenty of weird pizzas

I'll wash petri dishes instead

Holyfuck talk about betrayal

The text is not generated. It's from photos of books that failed ocr. The photos are then distorted to make it even harder in order to become that captcha. 2 words are used 1 is a control (to know if the response is correct), the other is one they what to know what says (to add to the pool of words and finish digitizing the book).

exactly what recaptcha does, for example. Knowing that you have to type a word because a computer failed to identify which word is it makes creating a program that does that no easier. Same with the image ones. While criptography is a different problem, the argument is the same: you want something that can be verified to be hard to break otherwise someone will eventually figure it out

They do exist. Mine has a mute button. The keypad is awful though. I don't remember the brand and not at home, but can look it up later

Interesting. Does "mongoloid" on its own mean someone of low intelligence? We have mongoloide in Brazil with that meaning. More often used as a way to call a friend silly instead of an actual insult, but can be used as one too.

Now with support for pin number logins

I can absolutely see that happening. Perhaps only allowing edits for a limited time after posting or only before a certain number of interactions (votes / comments) can be a reasonable way to allow edits but prevent abuse

I've bought used / refurbished (not sure which) with erased smart data. It being all zeros was a clear sign of erased / tampered info. After running badblocks some relocated sectors showed up.

Yup, I suspect that is indeed the issue. Haven't tried KDE in wayland yet as I've seen some people saying it's still a bit rough. Will give it a try anyway. May give sway another shot too

You don't. Use a password manager and you only have to remember 1 password (long and unique, doesn't need to be super complex IMHO)

Most offers I've got I don't even know what the job is. Like they will just say my profile matches what they are looking for and ask if I'd like to talk, no other context except the company name. I could ask, but I find kinda odd they don't even say what the job is right away. Feels like spam, I guess.

Try using screens with different resolutions at the same time. Always gave me trouble. In my case was always using a horizontal one and a vertical one together. I've had framerate problems, tearing, artefacts (parts of the vertical screen wouldn't update while the other 2 worked fine). From time to time, X will forget my monitor configuration too after a reboot / unplugging the dock / waking from sleep. All that with 2 laptops from different brands using different docstations, one with XFCE on Ubuntu and the other with KDE on Arch. I got it mostly working, but it's still troublesome

I would advise you to try to find if it's actually viable (and how hard it is) to go back to a job comparable with what you have now after being a couple years out of the market. I think this is something that varies from place to place and it's a known problem here (Brazil). I don't know how dependent on age, sex or career it is, though.

Bean there, done that

I feel the lack of (public?) karma will at least help with the repost bots here. That is, if you buy the "bots needing karma to look legit" or the "needs to gather karma to post in some subs" arguments. I've always found those to be very weird as no sub I've seen needs several thousand karma to post and most bots still look like bots.

Competition for karma sounds like more of the same problem with bots: lots of low effort posts to rise those numbers

This sounds like the beginning of great tifu post

Sounds very reasonable. Thanks for the post. I personally didn't think it was a big deal when registering, just slightly odd. Didn't give it much thought though. Unfortunately bots and trolls are constant problems to any online community. As Lenny grows, automated tools for moderation and spam prevention will likely be needed to help easy the work on the mods

Sounds very cool. I haven't read the study, but I think a key part of this is how the post is promoted. If more "trusted" posts are promoted, could the button effectively become the new like button? Can bots abuse this system? "Distrusting" a post demotes it? All those things have to be taken into consideration specially when accounting for bots and brigading. Nonetheless, looks promising